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’Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house
No electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged by the chimney with care
With the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
G. B. Barton, R. F. Keough, J. J. McCown, J. A. Yount
Nuclear Technology | Volume 57 | Number 3 | June 1982 | Pages 315-319
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT82-A26300
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A program was carried out to develop small less fragile ceramic electrodes for use in measuring oxygen in sodium. To use the electrodes as inserts in existing sampler hardware, composite metal-ceramic tubes were required. Four configurations of composite metal-ceramic probes employing yttria-doped thoria as the solid electrolyte were fabricated and tested. These incorporated both mechanical and brazed seals between the metal and ceramic. The most useful for fast flux test facility applications utilized a brazed seal between the ceramic and an alloy of matching coefficient of thermal expansion. A number of alternate reference systems were also investigated. Reference electrodes tested included Na-Na2O, In-In2O3, Ni-NiO, and Ag-air.